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Tx.; Grant Forest Products' Timmins, Ontario, OSB plant acquired from Malette; Hardel Mutual Plywood Co.'s new Chehalis plywood facility; Freres Lumber's plywood mill #3 in Mill City, Or., bought from North Santiam Plywood Co.; McKenzie Forest Products' Eugene, Or., plywood facility purchased from Springfield Forest Products; Washington Veneer's Omak, Wa., plywood plant formerly operated by Omak Wood Products, and Rainier Veneer's former Hardel plywood plant in Graham, Wa.

Four facilities closed in 1998:

"Almost all of our smaller stores are non-existent. They are all moving up to superstores. Of our 485 stores, only 20 of the small stores are left."

- Jody McKnight, lnwe's mgn, whose small town store in Tennessee is being replaced by a unit five times its size

Louisiana-Pacific's Corrigan, Tx., OSB plant; Plum Creek Timber Co.'s Joyce, La., plywood mill; Boise Cascade Corp.'s Medford, Or. plywood facility, and Cantree Plywood Corp., New Westminster, British Columbia.

Industry production totaled 93Vo of capacity, with the ratio expected to fall this year to 9l%o.